Every service below has its own Anacortes page — the island housing stock here, City of Anacortes permit notes, and what salt on three sides asks of an install — with our showroom taking shape at 911 29th Street.
This is the work Anacortes homes ask of us — from Old Town to Skyline, including our own showroom remodel at 911 29th Street. Flip through and picture your home next.
Get a Free Estimate →Anacortes homes are marine-exposed in every direction: Old Town Victorians above the Guemes Channel, refinery-era mid-centuries across the central grid, and view construction from Cap Sante to Skyline that takes southwest storm wind straight off the water. The Olympic rain shadow keeps totals modest — around 26 inches a year, far less than most of western Washington — but what rain arrives rides storm wind sideways, and the salt never takes a season off: it corrodes cheap fasteners and hardware years before siding itself fails, chalks west-facing paint, and pits aluminum window frames. The oldest stock adds a second problem: decades of paint over wood siding that has already started to move.
Permits run through the City of Anacortes, and we handle them start to finish — pulled and passed across Skagit County, city permit center and county PDS alike. And because our showroom is taking shape here at 911 29th Street, Anacortes homeowners will soon be able to do what almost nobody else's customers can — walk a building we remodeled ourselves, touch the materials, and meet the team.
…and everywhere else on Fidalgo Island, plus Guemes Island by ferry arrangement.
Verified Google review"Michael and his team did a solid job of siding our house after a bid process that included two other providers. His and his crew's attention to detail, cheerful and eager-to-please follow-up made this project as painless and possible. We also had them put a new surface on our upper deck and the result is gorgeous and will be much easier to care for than our old wooden deck. A plus is that they are located right here in Anacortes, so they were always never more than a few minutes away. We are thrilled with the job. Nothing but positives."
No pressure, no jargon — a clear path from first call to final inspection.
Call (360) 296-9380 or send the form — tell us a little about your home and what's failing.
We measure at your home, open up anything suspicious with your OK, and write a bid specific to your house — minimal boilerplate.
Permits pulled, work scheduled around the weather, and the final inspection passed before we call it finished.
Every bid is measured on site and itemized — these are the factors that actually change the number.
Wall area drives material; height drives scaffold time. A three-story Old Town Victorian prices differently than a Skyline rambler.
Siding replacement →What's behind the old siding is the honest unknown — we scope known rot into the bid and price discovered rot transparently, per repair.
Rot repair →Hardie ColorPlus, primed fiber cement, or engineered wood — we quote options side by side so you see the real difference.
Compare materials →Combining siding and windows saves one full mobilization and gets properly integrated flashing — the cheapest time to do windows is during a re-side.
Window replacement →Anacortes was built on a bet. When word spread in 1890 that the town might become a transcontinental railroad terminus, the population jumped from a few hundred to a few thousand in months, and speculators threw up hotels, storefronts, and the ornate Victorians that still crown Old Town above the Guemes Channel. The railroad never came and the boom collapsed — but those 1890s homes stayed, and their old-growth walls now carry more than a century of paint.
The town that survived the bust built plainer. Salmon canning started in 1894, eleven canneries lined the waterfront by 1915, and together with the lumber and plywood mills they earned Anacortes its 1920s nickname, the "City of Smokestacks." Cannery and mill payrolls filled the blocks between downtown and the water with modest workers' cottages and craftsman homes — simple wood siding and double-hung windows, built solid but never fancy.
The next wave arrived by pipeline. Shell opened its March Point refinery in the mid-1950s and Texaco followed in 1958, and refinery payrolls filled the central grid with mid-century ramblers — many still carrying the original aluminum windows and first-generation hardboard that are failing today. From the 1960s on, view construction climbed the edges: Skyline around its marina, Cap Sante, and the west side toward Washington Park, where southwest storm wind meets big glass.
That layered stock all answers to the same landlord: salt water on three sides, tempered by an Olympic rain shadow that holds rainfall to roughly 26 inches a year. The rain is manageable; the salt is not. Every era of Anacortes housing — Victorian, cannery cottage, refinery rambler, view home — eventually needs its fasteners, flashing, and hardware specced for marine air, and that's exactly the lens we inspect through.
A free on-site estimate anywhere in Anacortes — and a showroom opening soon at 911 29th Street, a building that is our own crew's work top to bottom.
